Email Marketing

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There’s never been a better time to launch an email campaign to attract new customers. Why? The way consumers purchase products and engage with brands is changing. Ecommerce is exploding. Consumers spent $861.12 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2020, up an incredible 44.0% year over year, according to Digital Commerce 360 estimates. Acquisition email

Marketing Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and are you feeling social? I turned today to

Have you looked at your email replies lately? I’m talking about the email messages that come back to your “reply-to” email address after you send an email campaign. Many are autoresponders, like out-of-office messages, but personal replies come in, too. These are the ones I mean.  You might have a reply-to handling system set up

Marketing Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and have you changed your stack recently? A lot

Email marketing remains a crucial channel for many organizations due to its accessibility, ease of use, and effectiveness in reaching target audiences. Since 2018, Validity and Demand Metric have researched email marketing to examine which tactics marketers are using, how well they are working, and what challenges prevent greater success with email. Although the use

Salesforce has announced new ABM capabilities which both promote personalized engagement with account members, and support campaigns targeted at accounts where account members are currently unknown. The announced enhancements are Accounts as Campaign Members and Einstein Key Account Identification. Accounts as Campaign Members. Previously, marketers had only been able to use Salesforce to target accounts

Bronto, the ESP acquired by NetSuite in 2015, will cease service at the end of May, 2022. In an email to customers, Bronto announced that it was entering an “end of life” phase, with its marketing automation technology and other resource migrating to the Oracle CX Cloud. The history. At the time of the acquisition,

Email remains one of the most important and effective marketing channels. Yet, a recent study suggests email marketers are running the risk of negatively impacting their email program by not following best practices Even the most seasoned marketers know that you can’t focus on the big picture without locking down basic best practices. Join Validity

Learn about the smartest way to deliver email communications. Entrust and Red Sift mobilize brands to improve their email security strategy and create a more consistent email experience for their recipients – it’s a win-win for both InfoSec and Marketing teams. Join our experts as they explain what marketing managers need to know to become

Virtual events platform Hopin last week acquired live-streaming studio Streamyard for a reported $250 million. The move represents consolidation in the virtual events space. Two start-ups combine. U.K.-founded and London-based Hopin, a statrt-up not yet two years old, has as its mission giving event organizers “the ability to recreate the in-person event experience as closely

Here we are, at the end of December, and you know what I’m not seeing? A lot of predictions for 2021. Now, this isn’t surprising. In 2020, anything I predicted, or anything anybody else predicted, surely didn’t happen. A meme that circulated early in the pandemic sums it up best: “Those who made their five-year

As the bell rang to close the New York Stock Exchange at 4pm EST today, investors, Salesforce and Slack users, and the martech community at large were awaiting the anticipated announcement of a multi-billion acquisition of the popular collaboration platform by the CX and CRM giant. Slack already has close integrations with Salesforce, but the

The digital transformation that has been accelerated by the COVID outbreak has affected all parts of the martech stack, from platforms to apps. While the volume of email marketing campaigns has increased, not much attention has been paid to how email marketing itself has had to change. “In March all of our inboxes were kind

With the first-ever at-home holiday season upon us, email marketing campaigns will be an even more important tool for marketers. But how to cut through the noise of what might be record-setting volumes of emails? First, marketers need to understand that campaigns ideally need to have already started; or at least have a launch date

Now that we’ve made it to the make-it-or-break-it fourth quarter, advice is flowing fast and furiously about 2020 holiday planning. I wrote some of that advice, too, like my September column “Predictions for holiday 2020 v. 400.0? Be ready for anything” about managing holiday campaigns when you don’t know what’s going to happen next.  But

The continued dominance of email as a marketing channel is elevated further in a time when people are paying more attention to their inbox in real-time than ever before. But that doesn’t mean marketers don’t need to keep abreast of new technologies and tactics. Among the possibilities for today’s email campaigns is modifying content at

So many unprecedented things have happened in 2020 that I’m afraid to start listing them in case that unlocks a portal to even more horrors. And we still have four months to go, bringing with it more hurricanes, the U.S. elections, COVID-19 2.0 and – maybe most frightening of all – the holiday shopping season. 

Food and technology have been on everyone’s mind in the past six months, and for SAP CX these two worlds collided this spring in a 7-day span when its SAP Commerce Cloud was used to launch a new direct-to-consumer platform for Brakes, a leading food supplier in the U.K. “This is where the pandemic has

On Wednesday, September 16 at 1pm EDT, MarTech Today’s, Editorial Director and host of MarTech Live, Kim Davis, will be talking with marketing leaders about email marketing, from the technology that powers it to the challenges of integrating email across other marketing channels. Kim’s guests will include: Michael Barber, Founder, Barber & Hewitt April Mullen, Director

Whenever I think I’ve seen it all after 20+ years as an email professional, a brand does something to surprise me – and often not in a good way.  As we work our way through the COVID-19 experience, companies are striving for revenue any which way they can. Most are doing it by ramping up

Three years ago – remember three years ago? When life was normal, and we could eat, shop and travel, and I had logged 130,000 work miles in the air and now I haven’t left home in three months ….  Where was I? Oh, yes. Three years ago, I wrote about progressive profiling and how critical

If improving the health of your database is a priority in the new year, skip the traditional means of data cleansing and take a look at your email inbox first. That’s right, email replies (like Out-Of-Office and Left-The-Company) contain valuable sales intelligence about your leads. Think about it. Many of those auto-replies contain real-time updates

Email marketing is like an old friend. It’s been around for years. It doesn’t surprise you much anymore. You may even find it a little boring sometimes. But at the end of the day, you know you can depend on it. Even with the emergence of more exciting engagement tactics, email marketing has remained a

I know what you’re thinking: Drip campaigns? They’re about as relevant as Michael Bolton. But here’s the thing about Michael Bolton: He’s always relevant! Truth is, the concepts behind drip campaigns—sending communications to customers and prospects on a regular basis—remain as relevant today as ever. The difference is that marketing automation has made this process

Now is always the time to strengthen your marketing strategy. As numerous new channels and platforms are mushrooming in the digital marketplace, marketers must take an omnichannel approach to drive meaningful interactions with prospects and drive better conversions. Here’s a chart that supports the importance of a cohesive omnichannel approach. This implies that marketers must

Email is dead—or at least that’s what the headlines claim. Sure, getting to “inbox zero” might be everyone’s focus today, but brands shouldn’t count out the power of a well-executed email campaign just yet. Why Email Still Works Marketers have argued about the viability of email campaigns ever since email became widely adopted as a marketing

With 23.8% of marketers spending at least a week producing a single promotional email, it is quite clear how developing an email marketing strategy is a critical and crucial task. Therefore, it becomes imperative to have an email development process that’s not only well planned and efficient but also runs smoothly and fulfills your business’

Email, although a conventional mode of marketing and communication, has weathered the storms of Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Mobile, and even RSS. What has helped email become a valuable medium over time is its periodic evolution. From plain-text messages to highly targeted and automated emails, they have now mastered features like HTML and CSS coded design,

I’m tired of people giving email marketing a bad rap. Because despite claims that email is dead, 33% of consumers say they used it more frequently in 2019 than last year.  And by the end of 2019, it’s estimated that marketers in the U.S. will have spent $350 million on email advertising.  With so much